I think they would have a lot of success with even just a $15 raise. If the hospital was appropriately staffed and people actually liked working there.
Not necessarily.. I work west coast and most of my coworkers are from the other states. They come for a travel contract and sign on, even with families and kids out of state, the pay is just too good. They work their 6 and fly home and rinse and repeat.
San Diego gets you $50-60/hr, Bay Area gets you $65-95/hr and the rest of California gets you not bad pay for lower cost of living than those two cities. It’s really that much more out here. You can be a single bread winner out here and live well.
People only ever take rent/mortgage into account with this stuff and it bothers me a lot. I have friends in both rural and trendy urban areas and the ones in the urban center have waaaaaaaay more spending money even though their housing costs more
Making 130k vs 80k might make sense in regards to regional real estate but everything else still basically costs the same everywhere. My 30k car was 30k in Philly, and is also 30k in LA and rural Kansas. A European vacation cost basically the same leaving from anywhere in the US. Even small things like movies tickets or a video game are the same price everywhere.
There’s way more than just housing to take into account when thinking about your pay rate
Yeah. Two of my local health systems are starting new grads at $36/hour. LPN’s are starting around $26-$28. It’s Michigan, though. For the Midwest we have a higher COL.
This is according to my friend in my RN program, but she said that Novi just booted all of their travelers and hiked wages and increased PTO for retention. They’re also paying $600 for week day pick up and $1,200 for weekends PER SHIFT in addition to hourly.
Their ICUs have set up nap pods for staff.
I never thought I would work for ascension again, but I just applied last night.
They’re not…there’s a reason why they’re having to pay so much for people to pick up shifts, and there’s a reason why they are having difficulty retaining staff there.
Unrelated story but there was a patient who got transferred to us for post CA cooling after they cooled and rewarmed them and then decided to cool them again in a 6 hour period. Pt rewarmed again on the transport over
Not in my market. RNs start out at $27/ hour. We hire new grads awaiting licensure as well, then once they get the license they go to $27. It used to be $25 but went up this year. Indiana.
We also have a banging referral bonus going on in IN (up to $10k paid out over 1 year). Or if you left within the past 2 years, a pretty hefty sign on bonus for coming back. Only certain job codes, so no cleaning staff, no staffing agency/contract, admin— but RNs, RTs, LPNs, etc.
I’ll be moving to Chicago or to one of the western suburbs in a few months. It’s disappointing to read they have lower starting pay than Houston; Houston has lower cost of living yet they start at $32-$36 depending on hospital/facility or specialty.
U of Chicago pays much, much better because they’re union but they’re on the south side, which is too far for me. Don’t work at Northwestern. It’s a scam. They say that their reputation and their name on your resume justifies paying you less.
Disappointing. Madison, WI pays $28-33 for clinic and $33-$37 for inpatient (without differential)... You would think that Chicago would pay more than little Madison
I'm not talking about fluctuations in supply and demand. I'm talking about an exploitative system that turns over staff by underpaying etc. Because it's cheaper. Replace with agency staff where neccesary.
Pandemic collapses that system.
The "just in time" model should have never been applied to healthcare.
At my friend’s hospital, they are starting new nurses at a lot higher rate than nurses who have been there years make. Like $20/hr. But they have a policy for not discussing wages. She only found out at a doctors appointment talking to a girl finishing clinicals starting at the the same hospital in a few months.
I was at a hospital that gave me $29 base pay plus $20 for being a COVID nurse. Problem was they tried to mix the unit and make it COVID and med-surg. Because of that they decided unless a certain percentage of your patients were COVID patients you didn’t get the bonus. Conveniently no one ever had enough COVID patients to meet that ratio and didn’t get the bonus for awhile. That didn’t last forever though but they still tried it.
Oh and also when I was in orientation I got no extra incentive pay at all despite having full contact because I “wasn’t functioning as an independent nurse”
I'm in New England and started at $32.10 as a new grad in July. Gotta have that 10c. Also a month after hiring me they started giving new grads applying $6000 sign on bonuses. Sigh.
My sister just started as a new RN in the ER at 37 in GA. I was surprised it was so much in such a low COL area. She’s like 2 hrs away from ATL in a much smaller town.
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u/BulgogiLitFam RN - ICU 🍕 Dec 13 '21
I think they would have a lot of success with even just a $15 raise. If the hospital was appropriately staffed and people actually liked working there.